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was not only a windsucker, but a weaver ; and his 

 whole body incessantly moved from one side to 

 another without rest by night or day. On the 

 colonel's calling out in groom's fashion, " Come up !" 

 the weaving instantly ceased, the horse trembled 

 violently, and then suddenly lashed out with his hind 

 legs, as if he wished to kick the speaker to atoms. 

 Attempts had been made to educate him in the native 

 style, and this was the cause that had rendered him so 

 intolerably vicious ; nor is this to be wondered at, for 

 few horses possess tempers sufficiently good to endure 

 the severe treatment of the native riding schools. On 

 the accession of the late king of Oude, this poor 

 creature was turned loose into a court-yard with a 

 hungry royal Bengal tiger. The battle was of consi- 

 derable duration ; but the event proved the power and 

 spirit of the horse, who kicked the tiger to death after 

 his own bowels had been torn out, and trailed on the 

 ground. 



M . Arnauld, in his " History of Animals," relates 

 the following incident of ferocious courage in a mule : 

 " This animal belonged to a gentleman in Florence, 

 and became so vicious and refractory, that his master 

 resolved to make away with him, by exposing him to 

 the wild beasts in the menagerie of the grand duke. 

 For this purpose he was first placed in the dens of the 

 hyenas and tigers, all of whom he would have soon 

 destroyed, had he not been speedily removed. At 



